Edited by the National Business Employment Weekly, today's leading career resource, the NBEW Guide to Self-Employment tells you how to benefit from the downsizing and reorganizing work trend, exploring such specific career alternatives as consulting, freelancing, temping, buying or launching a business, purchasing a franchise, and others.
Key topics covered include:
* Determining your aptitude for working independently through diagnostic quizzes and self-assessment exercises
* Starting a business, including market research, planning, financing, and more
* Setting up your work environment, including office space and equipment needs, professional services, network resources, and hiring
* Buying an existing business or franchise--the different types of businesses, valuing and pricing the acquisition, and negotiating an agreement
* Launching a consulting practice--defining your services and markets, selling yourself, pricing, billing, and building a clientele
* Professional temping and outsourcing--how and when they work best
Supplemented with dozens of useful case studies and handy resource materials, the NBEW Guide to Self-Employment offers a complete and in-dispensable look into a whole new world of career opportunities outside corporate life.
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Literally millions of jobs have been eliminated from the world's largest corporations in the last 15 years--with no change in the foreseeable future. This practical guide contains all the information essential to pursuing a self-directed career. The focus is a hands-on evaluation of the pluses and minuses of advancing your career through an entrepreneurial approach. Describes a variety of ways of making a living outside corporate life such as starting your own business, becoming a consultant, freelancing and buying a franchise. Includes a number of diagnostic quizzes to help readers determine if they can work independently.
DAVID LORD is an independent marketing consultant and former editor of the Executive Recruiter News.
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